The Darkness have announced plans for their seventh studio album Motorheart, their first release since 2019's Easter Is Cancelled. The album, which arrives via Cooking Vinyl, is due on October 15.
In a video announcement, the group called the effort "the most uplifting and joyous expression of rock music that you're gonna find this side of COVID."
A description of the album reads:
Drop the needle anywhere on Motorheart and be instantly transported from this moaning and weeping vale of tears to Elysian fields of rock where all hands are raised, the drinks — just as in the Club Tropicana of yore – are free, and everyone wears a pleasingly salacious grin. Does it rock? Is the sun hot? Has your partner's touch grown cold? The Darkness are the Orwellian boot stamping on the flaccid face of limp rock, forever!
In addition to the group's forthcoming record, they've also plotted an extensive tour around Europe, and while they've yet to officially announce any Canadian dates, a statement about the winter 2021 tour seems to signal the type of silly extravagance we've come to expect artistically from the British band.
Frontman Justin Hawkins wrote: "The time has come, the walrus said... to put your fookin pants on your head and rock like Satan is eating your private parts with a pointy fork!"
He added: "Yes, we, the Darkness, are the fuck back on tour, praise Satan's better half... come and party with us like it's the last orders at the last chance saloon. Which it may well be, but I wouldn't like to comment any further on that."
See the band's announcement below, find pre-order information for Motorheart here and check out the Darkness' upcoming tour dates here.
In a video announcement, the group called the effort "the most uplifting and joyous expression of rock music that you're gonna find this side of COVID."
A description of the album reads:
Drop the needle anywhere on Motorheart and be instantly transported from this moaning and weeping vale of tears to Elysian fields of rock where all hands are raised, the drinks — just as in the Club Tropicana of yore – are free, and everyone wears a pleasingly salacious grin. Does it rock? Is the sun hot? Has your partner's touch grown cold? The Darkness are the Orwellian boot stamping on the flaccid face of limp rock, forever!
In addition to the group's forthcoming record, they've also plotted an extensive tour around Europe, and while they've yet to officially announce any Canadian dates, a statement about the winter 2021 tour seems to signal the type of silly extravagance we've come to expect artistically from the British band.
Frontman Justin Hawkins wrote: "The time has come, the walrus said... to put your fookin pants on your head and rock like Satan is eating your private parts with a pointy fork!"
He added: "Yes, we, the Darkness, are the fuck back on tour, praise Satan's better half... come and party with us like it's the last orders at the last chance saloon. Which it may well be, but I wouldn't like to comment any further on that."
See the band's announcement below, find pre-order information for Motorheart here and check out the Darkness' upcoming tour dates here.